Top 100 Tom Ford Quotes
#1. I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.
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#2. I am totally fearless! Well, of course, I'm not totally fearless. I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.
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#3. I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.
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#4. I don't believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.
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#6. Dressing well is an expression of manners.
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#7. Fashion creates a bit of a dream
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#8. I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.
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#9. At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.
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#10. I'm a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.
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#11. When I come home I actually take off all my clothes, and I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked.
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#12. Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
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#13. I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
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#14. I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.
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#15. There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.
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#16. I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!
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#17. The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.
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#18. I understand that I have a certain look that can be used to my advantage. I know the power of that when I walk into a room and talk to people, and I can use it as an advertising tool. Now I am actually selling me, my face, my thoughts. So I am my guy.
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#19. I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.
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#20. It's not a feminizing product; it's designed to make your skin look better.
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#21. What is important is that we stop and realize, 'Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that.' But what is really important, what I'm really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.
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#22. I'm a very serious person.
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#23. There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.
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#24. Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.
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#25. I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent
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#26. I'm a pretty calm person. That came from living in Italy for a long time. Nothing works, nothing is on time. You have to learn to deal with it.
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#27. I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.
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#28. I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.
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#29. When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.
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#30. Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.
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#31. A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.
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#32. I don't do shows. I don't have reviews. I'm not putting the clothes on every celebrity so that by the time they reach the store the customers are sick of seeing them.
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#33. I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.
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#34. It's funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don't think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you're in control.
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#35. The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
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#36. I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.
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#37. Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
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#38. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
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#39. I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.
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#40. Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.
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#41. I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.
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#42. Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut.
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#43. I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.
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#44. Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.
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#45. Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.
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#46. There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.
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#47. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.
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#48. There are no right or wrong answers, There is only intuition
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#49. I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
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#50. A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon.
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#51. I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.
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#52. Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French, but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.
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#53. As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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#54. Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering - it will take pounds off you.
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#55. I think what's important for myself and anyone else who wants to create a film, or art, is [to] make sure that they have something to say, that they want to share something important, express something important.
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#56. I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.
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#57. It's hard not to be sexy in a pair of high heels.
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#58. September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
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#59. You have to look inside yourself and you have to say, well, what am I about? Why does anyone need this? Why does anyone need a 'Tom Ford' jacket? What do I believe in?
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#60. I am one of those people who isn't great at anything, but I'm pretty good at most things.
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#61. My career in fashion has been very much about sexuality and sex, and I think a lot of people think that's all I can do and what I am all about.
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#62. Style. People talk about it being stylish and beautiful, that's at the service of the story. Style for me means nothing without substance and there are moments and things about the film that are stylish but hopefully at the service of the story.
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#63. I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.
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#64. Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.
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#65. I do everything completely naked
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#66. When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.
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#67. British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We've lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
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#68. Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.
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#69. Maybe it's because I'm a designer, but when I am in a state of excitement, everything is so sharp and colorful and amazing, and I can look at blue and I see the yellow in it and the green in it, and the green-blues, the yellow-blues, so.
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#70. A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.
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#71. College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.
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#72. When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.
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#73. I am actually extremely casual in certain environments. But one of the reasons I like living in London, I like the formality of it, as compared to the formality of America - or informality. I like putting on a suit. I like putting on a tie.
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#74. Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.
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#75. In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.
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#76. The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.
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#78. I don't want to find myself designing for the press.
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#79. In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.
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#80. I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.
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#81. I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.
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#82. If you don't need to quit drinking, you shouldn't quit drinking. I used to really love to drink, and especially living in London, it's just built for drinking ...
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#83. If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.
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#84. I do struggle because I'm attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
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#85. I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.
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#86. What works with your skin and eyes? Use that to zero in on your wardrobe.
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#87. You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.
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#88. When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
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#89. Just like girls need to learn to be comfortable in heels before they go out in them for the first time, a man should try wearing a suit throughout a normal day. I do most things in a suit-and sometimes even in a tuxedo-and so I'm really comfortable in one.
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#90. I think you should suffer sometimes to be attractive and beautiful, so I cut the clothes very slim because I like to feel the clothes on my body.
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#91. When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'
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#92. I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more.
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#93. She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.
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#94. I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?
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#95. You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.
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#96. If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.
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#97. It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.
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#98. You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.
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#99. Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet.
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#100. My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.
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